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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 11639
Released: April 22, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
It happens to one. Then another. And another. College students discover eerie voicemail messages on their cell phones. Each call comes from the near future. Each call has the chilling voice of the student during his or her last moments alive. And each call comes true. Terror is One Missed Call away in this got-your-number shocker based on the hit Japanese thriller Chakushin ari. Does the viral spree of calls have a single source? Is there something that links the victims? Psych student Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) and detective Jack Andrews (Ed Burns) scramble for answers. And they’re working fast. Because Beth just discovered an ominous message.
Description of One Missed Call:
Yet more modern technology falls prey to the influence of eeeeevil spirits in One Missed Call, a horror flick following firmly in the footsteps of The Ring, Pulse, and other remakes of Japanese creepfests. Good-looking young people are receiving voice-mails that prefigure their gruesome deaths; Beth (Shannyn Sossamon, 40 Days and 40 Nights) and Jack (Ed Burns) race against time to find the source of this cell-phone curse, leading them to a dark and treacherous burnt-out hospital. Little is fresh here--One Missed Call apes every other Japanese horror remake, using corpse makeup, blurry images at the corner of the screen or just out of sight, lots of ambient rattles and gasps, spooky-looking children, and the slow, trembling turn towards a ringing phone... which stopped being scary about four or five movies ago. But for fans of this particular subgenre, One Missed Call may evoke the warm, enjoyable familiarity that devotees of 1970s horror feel towards the repetitive output of Hammer Films. Ray Wise (Reaper, Twin Peaks) has a bit of fun as a cynical TV producer; comedian Margaret Cho has such a brief, throwaway part as a skeptical cop that one wonders if the rest of her role is on the cutting room floor; and Meagan Good (Brick, Stomp the Yard) gets prominent billing but is hardly in the movie at all. --Bret Fetzer
One Missed Call Reviews:
NO! I Don't Need New Long Distance! 
2009-09-18 - I really tried to remain as open minded as possible when I popped this film in because I kept hoping it would end up being better than Takashi Miike's mediocre mess, how hard could it be right? I mean when Hollywood remakes fantastic films fans can pretty much expect the worst but in this particular case they had the opportunity to only improve things.
Unfortunately, yet another J-Horror remake was flubbed. No big surprise really. One Missed Call delivers insulting product placement (Boost Mobile) aimed at children with disposable income, absolutely moronic characters that commit senseless acts of unimaginable stupidity, a criminally underutilized Ray Wise and a finale that ends up being a jumbled, convoluted mess. Sossamon and Burns' one-dimensional characters were hard to connect with (even with Sossamon's lame back story) and when all was said and done I found myself enjoying only two sequences. Two nifty sequences do not make a movie though.
I was incredibly disappointed with this film and it's just another disappointment in what seems to be a very long line of disappointments when it comes to Hollywood remakes of superior Japanese filmmaking. Isn't it funny that Miike's blow-off cinema is still better than the big budget remake steamers Hollywood drops? There's just nothing here worth seeing folks, I wouldn't lie to ya. If I thought this was a good film, I'd say so. Now, I won't exaggerate and insist this is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen but it is most definitely the stupidest film I've seen in a good many months.
america's critic 
2009-09-12 - I thought this was pretty good some parts were dulled out but for the scares and screams it can get ya, i give one missed call 3*
Harmless Horror...But I've Seen Much Worse 
2009-08-18 - So here is another Americanized version of a Japanese ghost story. Why not? The formula made tons of cash with "The Ring" and "The Grudge", might as well milk the genre for all its worth.
This time instead of a video tape, it's cell phones that allow one pissed off ghostie to travel around killing off various college friends by "Final Destination" methods. Of course you can't just make a ghost story anymore, there has to be a reason for the ghost, and the reasons laid out in "One Missed Call" are pretty complicated to say the least. I think the ghost got tired of trying to keep up with all the twists forced into the script by the writers and got angry trying to understand it's motivation for killing off all these Abercrombie & Fitch models???
So while "One Missed Call" isn't a great film, it's watchable in that "hey-it's-late-and-nothing-else-is-on" mode, or if your only choices come down to "One Missed Call" or some soft-core porn thing made by Shannon Tweed in 1987 before she met Gene Simmons airing on Cinemax, then go with "One Missed Call"...(of course Shannon Tweed was pretty hot in 1987.......).
One Missed Plot
2009-07-13 - Don't you hate seeing a movie with potential, (even if it is only a little potential, as in this one) but then some bad acting and Horrible directing ruin it? I do. I can't help but keep myself occupied during the seemingly forever running time, thinking of how I would have done it.
This movie starts off so lame and continues steadily the entire time. No real plot or character development. No directoral flow. No good acting. And the only thing creepy about the entire movie is the creepy ring tone. But the whole concept of a cell phone curse is totally B Grade and cheesy. Also, the broadcasted exorcism by a day time talk show host sums it all up.
Don't waist your time. You'll wonder why you didn't just ignore this call.
A Disturbing Tale of Ghostly Revenge 
2009-06-09 - In the vein of "The Grudge" and "The Ring," "One Missed Call" is based on another Japanese horror film of ghostly revenge. A group of college friends are mysteriously dying one by one. Prior to their death, each one receives a "1 Missed Call" message on their cell phone from the last person to die. Upon listening to this message, they hear their own voice screaming, pleading and begging for help. Who or what is responsible for these deadly premonitions?
Cute-as-a-puppy Edward Burns is famous for his roles in such romantic comedies as "The Holiday" and "Life or Something like It." It was a treat to see him portray gutsy Detective Jack Andrews whose sister may have been the first victim of the cell phone curse. During his investigation, he teams up with psychology student Beth Raymond (played by gorgeous Angelina Jolie look alike Shannyn Sossamon). The two share great chemistry. (A love scene between them would've been nice.) Jack and Beth frantically race against time in an effort to prevent more gruesome deaths, including their own. As in "Final Destination," death becomes a physical manifestation that appears unstoppable.
Now that cell phones outnumber landline phones, a horror film such as "One Missed Call" seemed inevitable. Though it is not a totally original idea, this film is very creepy and disturbing and boasts some unnerving special effects. It is good for watching late at night with all the lights turned off. If you enjoyed such modern horror classics as "Final Destination," "The Ring" and "The Grudge," you will not want to miss "One Missed Call." No matter how you feel about this film, you will never look at your cell phone the same way again.
